NSF Award Abstract - #0119877| NSF Award Abstract - #0119877 |
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| NSF Org | OISE |
| Latest Amendment Date | April 1, 2002 |
| Award Number | 0119877 |
| Award Instrument | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager |
Frances Li OISE Office of Internatl Science &Engineering; O/D OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR |
| Start Date | October 1, 2001 |
| Expires | September 30, 2004 (Estimated) |
| Expected Total Amount | $42930 (Estimated) |
| Investigator |
Jan Salick jan.salick@mobot.org (Principal Investigator current) Cheryl S. Asa (Co-Principal Investigator current) Gayle J. Fritz (Co-Principal Investigator current) James S. Miller (Co-Principal Investigator current) |
| Sponsor |
Mo Botanical Garden 2345 Tower Grove Ave Saint Louis, MO 63110 314/577-5100 |
| NSF Program | 1691 BE: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN |
| Field Application |
0201000 Agriculture 0103000 Ethical Considerations 0203000 Health 0511603 Societal Aspects |
| Program Reference Code | 0000,1689,OTHR, |
This workship will bring together biologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists engaged in research on etnobiology, together with applied mathematicians, to identify future directions to facilitate growth and maturation on the field. The workshop will be organized in two parts: an initial 3-day workshop of the organizing committee of mid-career leaders in the field, followed by a widely advertised seminar to which attendance will be open. The workshop will attempt to define and focus research objectives; explore modern methodology appropriate for studying plant/animal-people interactions; assess and strengthen techniques for quantitative analyses of multidisciplinary data; develop interdisciplinary education models to train students and practicioners of ethnobiology; and develop strategies to improve access to academic funding sources. International research partners from the International Society of Ethnobiology will attend. The participants will be pledged to apply the insights and collaborative linkages developed in the workshop to preparing competitive proposals in etchnobiology to submit to relevant programs in NSF. The output will be a bulletin defining the intellectual imperatives in ethnobiology, which will be broadly distributed to professional societies, universities, government agencies and nongovernmental organizations.There are a variety of practical problems that would benefit from a more holistic and theoretically strong ethnobiology discipline. Due to the global nature of the workshop and the involvemente of foreign participants, the impact on research and education could be global in scope.
This project is an award emananting from the FY 2001 special competition in Biocomplexity in the Envionment focusing on the Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems.
